HELP: has certificate but NOT has private key

[BussyBakks]

owner say in wiki is: You can get free signed certificate in letsencrypt.org
but it DONT has private key
how to export private (or public key) in certificate???
i have ONLY 1-step to public my HFS
pls help~~

[rejetto]

letsencrypt gives you private key, I know because I use it and I get this file "privkey.pem".

[BussyBakks]

how to obtain this private key??, i dont see this!

[SanokKule]

I will assume you are on windows.
Did you use certbot to get your certificate?
If so, you would have your certificate files in the 'C:/certbot/live/#your domain#/'

[BussyBakks]

@SanokKule sorry, i use sub-domain and i dont install certbot

[SanokKule]

Then what did you use to get your certificate?

[BussyBakks]

@SanokKule i download here

[rejetto]

your problem is not with HFS, but with letsencrypt.
If you want to get your free certificate from them, you have to go here https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=other&os=windows

If you don't like their way, your alternatives are

• get the certificate from another company (probably paying)
• use the basic certificate that HFS is able to produce, but you get the ugly warning message https://github.com/rejetto/hfs/wiki/HTTPS

I hope that I'll be able soon to focus on integration of letsencrypt, to make this stuff easier.

[BussyBakks]

ok thanks for help!!

[BussyBakks]

what is webroot in HFS?

[rejetto]

certbot calls "webroot" the folder of your disk that is served by your web server when accessing the root (like google.com , without any folder like google.com/folder )

Most web servers have the root associated to a folder on a disk.

Root is called "Home" in HFS.

Point is: by default HFS' root is virtual. Virtual = not associated to any folder on your disk. This is the "source" option in HFS.

You are trying to use certbot in "webroot" mode, but this mode needs you to have the home of HFS associated to a folder on your disk.

Your options are

• you don't use webroot mode (I don't)
• you continue, but need to set the "source" of the "home" of HFS.
  If you set it a folder, all the files in this folder will appear in HFS. So, you may want to set it to an empty folder. What will happen is that at some point certbot will add a file inside this folder, for a few seconds, necessary to create or renew your certificate.

[BussyBakks]

@rejetto thanks!

[BussyBakks]

i will ask more soon, so i keep issue open

[BussyBakks]

help part 2
i use duckdns, idk what happend!